Seven internationally renowned honorary doctors of the University of Pécs have been inaugurated at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting on 4 November at the dr. Halasy-Nagy Lecture Hall. They are prominent, respected professors, who have been actively working in close cooperation with the University of Pécs. Through their professional achievements on their respective fields as well as in the joint research projects with the faculties of the University they have greatly benefited the University of Pécs as well as Hungarian science. They all have given their inaugural adresses at the repective promoting faculties, which they have summarized at the Ceremonial Senate Meeting.
Jacques Demotes-Mainard was born in 1956 in France. He obtained medical qualification, then he passed a professional examination as a neurologist. He is the professor of cell biology and neurobiology. He has spent a longer period in the United Stated with research. From 2001 to 2007 he was the leader of the clinical research organization of the INSERM, then in 2014 he was elected to be the general director of the ECRIN. He has held this position since then, thus he is the head of the most important clinical research infrastructure of the European Union. Within the work organization of the ECRIN, Dr. Jacques Demotes-Mainard especially supported the Hungarian member organization of the ECRIN (HECRIN Consortium) in becoming a full member of the ECRIN and the Hungarian centre of the HECRIN Consortium in being taken to the University of Pécs. He supported the implementation of the Erasmus+ program managed by the HECRIN Consortium and the University of Pécs with the participation of French, Irish, Portuguese and Czech universities. He provided international support for the EFOP programme compiled by the University of Pécs, University of Debrecen and University of Szeged, he undertook to make the expansive international communication channels of the ECRIN available to the HECRIN Consortium and the University of Pécs if the COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) tender submitted by the University of Pécs wins support in 2020. He was for the organization of the “International Clinical Trial’s Day”, the most important forum of the clinical researches, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by the HECRIN Consortium and the University of Pécs in 2018. He takes part in the work of the International Consulting Body of the Szentágothai János Research Centre thus he regularly visits to Pécs.
